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When Should I Visit? Lets You Avoid People With Foursquare

by Terrence O'Brien on February 13, 2011 at 05:00 PM

When Should I Visit?
Most people use Foursquare to find out where their friends are hanging out (or simply to claim bragging rights as the "mayor" of Donnie's Pizza and Tacos). But the location based network can actually be useful for those of us not interested in earning badges or socializing with people. Admitted anti-socialite Dan Williams created When Should I Visit, a site that tracks Foursquare check-ins for locations in London to find the least busy days at museums, galleries, libraries and theaters in the city. Williams won't be keeping his crowd-avoiding tech to himself, thankfully. When Should I Visit will be getting both a New York and San Francisco edition within the next month or two (building up a data base of traffic patterns takes time), but the expansion will end there. Williams has no interest in creating a widely used or profitable service. "It's more of a personal project," he told Mashable. We wouldn't expect anything different from a guy who hacked a social network into a tool for avoiding people.

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